![]() ![]() Improved and new localisations ( 36 languages in total). Apart from those things, it’s the full iStat Menus. The iStat Menus Helper is needed to view some stats. It currently does not contain weather information. Reorderable dropdown menus, with the ability to hide sections. The Mac App Store version of iStat Menus is a little different to the version you can purchase and download from our website. Additional options, like dual line menu bar clocks, and condensed text for showing more in less space. Hotkeys to open and close menu dropdowns, for quick keyboard access. More colors and theme options, including light and dark vibrant menu dropdown backgrounds. The best alternative is HWiNFO (32/64), which is free. Notifications, based on CPU, network, disk, battery, weather and other events. There are more than 50 alternatives to iStat Menus for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Mono. Normally the 'SystemPal' use 0.2 CPU, while iStats Menu takes 3. But I noticed its CPU usage and power consumption is really high as a utility software. iStat Menus is pretty and the information is extensive. Refined menu bar items, dropdowns and other aspects match the new design of macOS 11 Big Sur. The sensor read doesnt work correctly so I bought iStat Menus: its popular and pretty. Install TG Pro ( download) on your Mac (make sure you download the version for Intel or Apple Silicon based on your Mac) Launch the app and you will see it show up as a menu bar app, complete with your CPU temperatures on the icon itself.Weather with current temperature, hourly forecast, weekly overview and so much more. The Sensors menu extra monitors your temperatures, fans and various power sensors. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide For all Late-2016 MacBook Pro models (with and without Touch Bar) follow these steps: Shut down your machine. You can also see more detailed information within the app window. Unfortunately, TG Pro doesn’t offer a widget. ![]() Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out. ![]() You can choose your notifications based on GPU, CPU, disks, memory, network connections, battery life, sensors, general power, and weather updates. Press the power button and then immediately press the command option p r keys. iStat Menus has a comprehensive notifications system that can notify you of a wide range of potential events. Snow Leopard Laptop sensor support in VirtualSMC is still very limited. The problem is that PC motherboards have completely different sensor types and names (keys) to what Apple hardware has, so the SMC emulation layer has to read the values via ACPI and convert them to equivalent MacOS SMC sensor keys. Today I tried to install iStat Menus to monitor my hardware, but it did not show any sensors. However Apple does not support many of the PC sensor types (such as PSU voltages), so these are somewhat alien to MacOS. Then I found out that I have to install RehabMans FakeSMC kexts, I installed the version from 2017-0607 from this site using KextUtility, but after restart I got a kernel panic, so I booted into SafeMode and deleted the installed kexts. 1 iStat Menus just updated (still version 6.51) and now shows all temperature sensors in my M1 MBA mcvaughan, torncanvas, gmwalk and 1 other person snakes- macrumors 6502 346. The developers of VirtualSMC are trying to follow the Apple SMC spec as close as possible so VirtualSMC does not currently attempt to read and process non-standard Apple sensors by default.įakeSMC took a completely different approach and did not attempt to follow the Apple SMC specification and instead adopted its own naming method for dealing with non Apple hardware sensors keys which could be monitored with the accompanying HWMonitor app. IStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. VirtualSMC does have the ability to read and process foreign sensor keys by means of satellite sensor kexts, for example there some PC fan sensors supported in the SMCSuperIO.kext that comes with VirtualSMC but it is very basic does not support all fans on all motherboards, its really meant as an example for those who want to write their own custom sensor kext for VirtualSMC. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. No thanks I don’t think I’m paying a subscription for iStat Menus there were some added premium features, like weather and such, but I didn’t opt in to those and it hasn’t been an issue. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display. TSE said: I would love iStat Menu vs TG Pro, except for it costs 10 every 6 months vs. Access the Finder located in the lower left-hand corner of your Dock (looks like a half blue, half white face) Once there a window will appear and you will see Applications on the left-hand. ![]() See the docs section of the project for more info and sensor support in VirtualSMC is still very limited. ![]()
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